United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court. Decided on 24 July 1974 with Chief Justice Warren Burger writing for the unanimous court, the ruling arrived amid the process to impeach Nixon and is considered a crucial precedent limiting a president's power to claim executive privilege.
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Key ProvisionDecided 24 July 1974: rejected President Nixon's claim of absolute executive privilege over the Watergate tapes, forcing their release. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, 1974.
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1. United States v. Nixon (Wikipedia)
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The Supreme Court does have the final voice in determining constitutional questions; no person, not even the president of the United States, is completely above the law.
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